Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....French, Charles Edgar 1865 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

CHARLES EDGAR FRENCH

    One of Yolo county's progressive and prosperous farmers is Mr. French, a
recent addition to the community, and who, by his straightforward, manly
dealings, has already made many friends in his new home. His birth occurred
December 30, 1865, in Stearns county, Minn., whither his parents, John H., of
the state of New York, and his mother, Ellen (Young) French, a native of Maine,
had moved from their respective places. Mr. French spent his youth upon his
father's farm, where he laid the foundation of his splendid physique and the
splendid health which he has since enjoyed. He received his education in the
schools of his home community, and while yet a lad courageously left his home
for Ogallala, Keith county, Neb., where he took up a homestead. He spent six
years upon this place, raising wheat and corn, going thence to Blackfoot, Idaho,
where he secured a position as section foreman on the Utah Northern, a branch of
the Union Pacific. In 1893 he journeyed to California, where, until November,
1907, he worked in a similar capacity at different places in the Sacramento
valley, for the Southern Pacific road. Abandoning this occupation he determined
to secure a small but valuable piece of land, where he might engage in an
industry more conducive to peace and also one of a more lucrative nature. After
viewing the situation in different localities he located on his present farm of
twenty acres one mile west of Woodland, which he has improved with buildings and
an orchard of about thirty varieties of fruit trees, as well as ornamental
trees. Seventeen acres of his property he devotes to alfalfa, which he finds
most profitable, his income from this source alone last year netting him $70 per
acre. He also established a dairy, supplied by eleven high grade Holstein cows.

    On this home place, which is highly improved, Mr. French and his family find
both tranquility and happiness. He was united in marriage in 1898 to Miss Agnes
Kergel, a native of Cacheville, Yolo county. They have two bright young sons,
Clarence H. and Elwin H. Mr. French is an active member of Woodland Lodge No.
111, I. O. O. F.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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